After four months without precipitation, a winter storm slammed Arizona on March 11, 2006, covering the parched land with widespread snow and record rain.
Acquired December 25, 2009, this true-color image shows snow stretching from Colorado and New Mexico across Texas and Oklahoma, and into Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas.
Winter settled heavily over Southwest Asia in January 2008. Intense cold and moist air combined to bring rare or unusually heavy snow to Iraq and Iran.